Flesh Made Word
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Flesh Made Word

The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic

  1. 237 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Flesh Made Word

The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic

About this book

This book delineates the individualist "interpretation problem" that has long beset Protestant biblical interpretation and engages theological resources that could serve to move beyond it. Lauren Smelser White argues that readers of Scripture—specifically those who long to submit their lives to God's transforming Word, which they believe the Bible discloses—ought to reckon with the participatory role that human bodies (corporeal and corporate) play in producing revelation's norms. Such a reckoning need not entail giving up on Scripture delivering the life-changing address of a divine Other. In support of that claim, White distills a picture of revelation as a divine-human discursive encounter: a process wherein our hermeneutic constructions are incorporated into the Word's self-disclosure, and whereby interpreters who embrace this venture in vulnerability may experience graced transformation. She concludes by proposing that this "Christomorphic" interpretation process is analogous to a mother's embodied responsiveness in caring for her child. Such a hermeneutic paradigm suggests distinctive commitments from communities who desire to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in interpretive acts.

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Information

Publisher
Fortress Academic
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9798765187203
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: Identifying the “Protestant Interpretation Problem”: Sola Scriptura Hermeneutics from Luther to Barth
  9. Chapter 2: Karl Barth’s Distinctive Iteration of Sola Scriptura
  10. Chapter 3: Protestant Alternatives in Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Frei: New Angles of the Interpretation Problem
  11. Chapter 4: Balthasar’s Contemplative Option: The Allures and Hazards of a “Christophorous” Hermeneutic
  12. Chapter 5: Incarnational Unfolding through Pneumatological Incorporation: Balthasar’s Linear Model and Coakley’s “Spirit-Led” Alternative
  13. Chapter 6: Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Word: Discourse as Sacramental Site of Revelatory Encounter
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. About the Author